Ex-Friends: Casualties of this war.

National Review Online ^ | March 21, 2003 | Rod Dreher

[Paulus Invictus]

And you're obviously not going to get that raise you deserve!

[tamikamaria]

Raise! Bwahahahaha! Once and a while I get a 25 cent raise and a bucket of gruel.

[bassmaner]

This is a really sad commentary on today's state of affairs.

On another thread yesterday, I posted this paraphrase of the famous quote by Pastor Niemoller ("First they came for the Jews," etc.)

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First they came for the Romanovs and I did not speak out because I was not a Romanov. Then they came for the kulaks, and I did not speak out because I wasn't a kulak. Then they came for anyone they wanted, just to fill a quota. I got passed over, so I didn't speak out. Then they sent their agents to the West to infiltrate the academy and the entertainment establishment, and rot it out from within. I believed the lie that it was Joe McCarthy, not Joe Stalin, who was the real enemy. Now my country's in mortal danger from attacks by medieval religious fanatics, and Joe Stalin's 5th columnists are allying with them and spewing their hatred for my country fifty years after his death, and I wonder why.

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One of the favorite tag lines of the Left, "the personal is political", is apparently the driving force behind all this rancor. We have let ourselves be poisoned by that philosophy, so much so that we cannot tell right from wrong, and what is absolutely good and what is absolutely evil. Until we rid ourselves of the Leftist cancer first inflicted upon us by the agents of the Evil Empire that collapsed upon itself 12 years ago by the weight of its own contradictions, we are doomed. Moral relativism will be our downfall.